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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Biography of Gary Chua 

Gary S. H. Chua, BEcon UAdel, ACA, FTIA is the Group Chief Executive Officer of the learn.ed solutions Group - an Internet online learning business - in Hong Kong.  Prior to taking up this role, Gary worked as a Chartered Accountant, Taxation Officer and Auditor for several years.  His extensive consulting and advisory experience encompasses the areas of new technology start ups, project and financial management, mergers and acquisitions, change management, litigation support, business valuations, strategic and corporate planning, operations management and the provision of corporate taxation planning and advice.

Gary has assumed managerial and senior executive positions in various businesses.  He has been involved in the Information Technology Industry Sector since 1994 regarding aspects of intellectual property commercialisation and realisation.  He has fulfilled roles as a consultant to the Managing Director of a major financial institution in South Australia and was involved in the negotiation and establishment of a manufacturing joint venture in the People's Republic of China.

Specific assignments undertaken by Gary include business and intellectual property valuations, evaluation of business and investment opportunities, feasibility study assignments, corporate and financial structuring assignments, strategic planning advice to financial institutions, valuation of businesses, private and listed company shares, assessments of the financial viability of submissions by companies to financial institutions, special examinations and Court litigation assignments, operations and financial management, specialist taxation advice, business migration services, operational management of retail and service facilities.

Gary's tri-linguistic skills have enabled him to develop a network of leading manufacturers, professionals and investors in the Asia Pacific area and he has led negotiations in various countries, including Brunei, Cambodia, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the United Kingdom.  He has presented numerous seminars on business opportunities that exist in Australia and presented papers on foreign exchange and business valuations to the Australian Society of Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Australian Taxation Office.  He conducts regular workshops on Business and Government to Government Negotiations - Basic and Advanced modules to corporations and government ministries in Asia.